Club News
Entries are now invited for the Paul Sigsworth Trophy which will be staged at Meltham on Sunday 14 August. An incentive for Juniors to enter the competition is provided by free entry with a cash prize for every Junior that beats an adult. Both greens will be in use with the start time still to be determined and is dependent on the number of entries.
The closing date for entries is next Tuesday (9 August).
Paul Sigworth is probably best remembered as Huddersfield's most successful-ever bowler, the winner of 165 competitions in a glittering career – including four Huddersfield Merits, three Champion of Champions and the Waterloo Spring Handicap at Blackpool – Siggy died aged 47 after a seven-month battle against cancer. It robbed the sport of a fantastic player and a thoroughly decent man.
His own records revealed 82 appearances for Yorkshire (won 58, lost 24) from his debut in 1992 up to June last year, and he captained the home and away sides on many occasions. A stalwart of the Griffin winter bowling club where his ashes were scattered, he also made several appearances for England in the British Crown Green Bowling Association annual international series.
His tally of 80 wins at the Griffin is unlikely ever to be beaten – he was proud to twice win the memorial event in honour of his father, Bernard – and the club president, Alan Hirst, said: “Paul will be pretty much impossible to replace.
There was more to Paul than his actual playing record. It was no accident that he was selected as captain of the County side so many times. His quiet, but decisive, leadership qualities and the respect in which he was held by other County bowlers made him an easy choice.
This competition is a fitting tribute and memorial to undoubtedly Huddersfield's best-ever bowler.
